CoffeeShop Hazy Afternoon Photoshop/PSE Action!

If you are new to my blog, welcome!!! The CoffeeShop Blog is a one-woman-owned business (by me, Rita!) and I create all of the tutorials and freebies posted here. If you want to grab hundreds of my Photoshop/PSE actions (including exclusive sets not found here on my blog), Lightroom Presets, and professional digital designs (including all of my favorite holiday sets) in a single download AND support my site please check out my CoffeeShop Download Pack. I appreciate your support!!! Thanks to you The CoffeeShop Blog is possible. 

Today I wanted to post my newest free action, CoffeeShop Hazy Afternoon!  This actions adds a custom tinted haze to your outdoor images and can be quite stunning.  I also have an Hazy Afternoon Action UnWrapped Tutorial which shows you how I wrote this action if you want to see "under the hood".

I found this lovely image at Pixabay.  You can download it here and practice along with my tutorial if you want.

I also have a new action that creates three light overlays that can add lovely light/haze to your images.  Click here to download the "Magic Light Overlay Creator" action set.

CoffeeShop Hazy Afternoon Action Tutorial:

After the action finishes running you will have to adjust the white color fill layer's mask to customize the haze for  each image.

Click on the Layer Mask of Color Fill 2 (the white layer) to select it.

Click G for the gradient tool (make sure you are using the gradient and not the paint bucket) and select a black to white gradient.

Click on the darkest part of your image and drag your mouse to the lightest area (toward the light). You can continue to drag the gradient on the layer's mask until you are happy with the light placement.  You can also adjust the layer's opacity.

Download the free CoffeeShop Hazy Afternoon Photoshop/PSE action. 

Do you want to download my favorite CoffeeShop PSE/Photoshop Actions and Lightroom Presets or Design Elements in one convenient zipped file AND help support this blog? Just click here.

For complete info on installing all of my actions, click here.